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The press the machines actually read

Every time an AI answer engine recommends a Dallas restaurant, it cites its sources. We keep the receipts. This is the ranked list of publications and individual articles the engines pulled from — which is, in practice, the list of places worth getting written about.

Citations
7824
Publications
1209
Editorial
41
Answers cited
1032
Median age of cited content not yet known
CClaude — PPerplexity — OOpenAI —

Weighted by citation, not by URL — a five-year-old round-up cited three hundred times shapes three hundred answers. Dated for 0% of 3079 article citations; the rest publish no date we can read, and are left out rather than guessed at.

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dallas.eater.com

Editorial
128 citations 100 answers OOpenAI 112 PPerplexity 16

Cited articles

  1. Best Dallas Restaurants 38 Essential ↗ OOpenAI 26 date unknown 26
  2. James Beard Awards Semifinalists 2025 Texas Dallas Restaurants ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  3. Dallas Fort Worth Best Most Anticipated New Restaurant Openings Spring Summer 2025 ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  4. Best Chinese Restaurants Dallas Texas ↗ OOpenAI 3 date unknown 3
  5. Best Restaurants Dallas Underrated ↗ OOpenAI 3 date unknown 3
  6. Best Sushi Restaurants Dallas ↗ OOpenAI 3 date unknown 3
  7. Dallas Best Lower Greenville Avenue Restaurants Where To Eat ↗ OOpenAI 3 date unknown 3
  8. Dallas Best New Restaurants Heatmap ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  9. James Beard Awards 2025 Texas Dallas Restaurants Winners ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  10. Best Bars Dallas Texas ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  11. Best Downtown Dallas Restaurants ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  12. Best Restaurants Fort Worth ↗ PPerplexity 2 date unknown 2
  13. Dallas Best Cheap Eats Budget Friendly Restaurants Food ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  14. Dallas Best Happy Hours Where To Drink Cheap ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  15. Dallas Best Kid Friendly Restaurants ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2

Questions these citations answered

What a diner was asking when an engine reached for this source.

  1. What are the best new restaurants in Dallas right now? OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 5 6
  2. Which DFW restaurants are James Beard nominees or winners? PPerplexity 6 6
  3. Most anticipated new restaurant openings in DFW? OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  4. Best romantic restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 3 3
  5. Where should I take out-of-town guests to eat in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  6. Best restaurants in downtown Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  7. Best date night restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  8. Where should I go for a special occasion dinner in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  9. Best Mexican restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  10. Best Mediterranean restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  11. Best Vietnamese food in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  12. Best Indian food in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  13. Best brunch in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  14. Best breakfast spots in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2
  15. Best wine bars in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 2

Venues named alongside it

Rooms the engines named in the same answers that cited this source. Co-occurrence, not proof of cause — but it is the shape of the influence.

Method

We ask the AI answer engines the questions diners actually ask, on a schedule, and store every answer with its citations. The counts above are citation rows — one per source URL an engine attached to an answer — scoped to the most recent complete observation run.

"Editorial" versus "directory" is our judgement call, applied by domain and tuned as the corpus grows. Editorial means a publication with an editor: a place a restaurant can be pitched. Directory means an aggregator, listing site, OTA, or user-generated platform — visible, but not pitchable.

Publication dates and bylines come from each cited page's own structured data — the publisher's JSON-LD, then its OpenGraph tags. We fetch politely, once per second, identify ourselves, and stop asking any site that declines. Where a page declares no date we say so; we never estimate one. The exception is Reddit, which refuses crawlers but encodes a post's position in its own submission counter in the URL — those dates are arithmetic, accurate to roughly a day, and marked approximate wherever they appear.